hale and heartiness

English

Alternative forms
  • hale-and-heartiness

Etymology

hale and hearty +‎ -ness

Noun

hale and heartiness (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being hale and hearty.
    • 2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow, Weidenfeld & Nicolson:
      As for his own relative hale and heartiness, he attributed it to drinking a bottle of beer per night; ‘all the beer drinkers seem to be keeping pretty fit’.
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